EDI Advantage: Bridging the information gap

between you and your trading partners

July 2013

Agenda

Arteria Technologies – An Introduction

EDI Advantage – Value Proposition

Features

Case Study

Benefits Summary

Arteria Technologies

Introduction

• Arteria is more than 6 years old organization and

is located at the International Tech Park,

Bangalore.

• The management team comprises of former

employees of SAP Labs India with several years

of development, implementation and consulting

experience.

• Arteria is exclusively focused on Services and

Products on SAP NetWeaver platform and helps

customers leverage the potential of NetWeaver &

Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP).

• Arteria has over 300 SAP consultants with

expertise covering Technical and Functional skills.

Credentials

• All SAP projects have ISO 9001:2008 and ISO

27001:2005 certification. Arteria is also SEI CMM

Level 3 Certified.

• Awarded the “Best SAP NetWeaver Process

Integration Partner 2007” for APJ.

• First partner globally to have a SAP certified

NetWeaver Mobile Client

• SAP ISV with certified products and SAP Co-

Innovation Labs (COIL) partner.

• Arteria engages with SAP Labs and Solution

Management for product feedback and

enablement in emerging technologies.

“Cool Vendors in the SAP Eco System, 2013” by Gartner, Inc.

Source: Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in the SAP

Ecosystem, 2013, Authors: Derek Prior | Thomas

Otter | Gilbert van der Heiden | Sunil Padmanabh |

Christian Hestermann, 18 April 2013

Arteria provides innovative solutions that tackle recurring SAP customer challenges and helps

customers to maximize their SAP ROI. “We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by

Gartner a confirmation of our mission to enable customers to leverage the power of

enterprise systems using mobility and portal technologies thereby improving business

performance,” said Sriram Kanuri, CEO of Arteria Technologies. “We continue to innovate with our

product roadmap; the upcoming launch of cloud version of our products will further enhance our

market position. Our strength is our capabilities to build solutions with quick ROI and help customers

extend their SAP ERP processes to business partners and employees while staying invested on the

SAP technology platform.”

Products and Services

NetWeaver based Products

• SupplierPortal Advantage

• DealerConnect Advantage

• SecondarySales Advantage

• Interactive Advantage

• Dashboards Advantage

Products on Mobile

• mApprove Advantage

• mDashboards Advantage

• mSalesForceAutomation Advantage

• mDepot Advantage

• mInspection Advantage

• mPlantMaintenance Advantage

• mSecondarySales Advantage

SAP Technology Expertise

• SAP NetWeaver Process Integration

• SAP NetWeaver BI & Business Objects

• SAP HANA

• SAP NetWeaver Gateway, BPM & Portal

• SAP Sybase Platform

• SAP BASIS, Solution Manager & TDMS

• SAP ABAP Custom & RICEFW services

• SAP Technical Upgrade

Solution Extensions Expertise

• SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe

• SAP Archiving & Document Access by OpenText

• Seeburger EDI Adaptors

• SAP Duet Enterprise

Arteria Customers

Automotive

(OEM and

Auto

Components)

Consumer

Products and

Retail

Diversified

Groups

Arteria Customers

Discrete

Manufacturing

Process

Industries

Mill

Financial

Services

Life Sciences

Industry, Business & IT Challenges

Industry Challenges

• Unnecessary re-capture of B2B transactional data (slow and

error-prone) e.g.: Invoice and PO

• Employees spending time on B2B process transactions

instead of developing and enhancing business

• Customers need you to be on the platform defined by them

• Connect to all sizes of Business Partners

Business Challenges

• Common Framework for electronic business transaction with customers for improving supply chain efficiencies

• Slow management reporting and manual reconciliation

• Deductions and credits for mistakes

• Hours spent in paper administration

IT Challenges

• Using a standards based messaging framework

• Security and non-repudiation

Purchasing &

Requisition

Sales/Order

Management

RFQ

Quote

PO

PO Ack

Receiving

Accounts

Payable

Shipping

Accounts

Receivable

Shipment

Notice

Invoice

Check and

Invoice Info

Buyer Seller

The Solution: EDI Advantage with SAP PI and Seeburger

Advantage

SAP PI

SAP ECC 6.0IS Solution

IDoc EDI

VAN Mail box

Trading Partner

Internet

Cloud

Firewall

• The EDI adapter is used to receive messages from the customer’s EDI server or VAN mailbox.

• The EDI adapter converts the message from EDI format to XML format. It is also responsible for

acknowledgements.

• The XML message is then mapped to the SAP standard IDoc.

• The IDoc then creates/updates the relevant SAP document (Sales Order).

• The same process is followed when a EDI message is to be transmitted to the Business partner. In this case,

SAP IDoc is converted to EDI message and transmitted by the EDI adapter.

EDI Advantage: Automated Order Creation example

R/3 SEEBURGER

EDI Solution

Company B: BUYER

SAP XI

SEEBURGER

EDI adapterXI Mappings

IDoc

Adapter

Company A: SELLER

EDI-Server(BIS)

„ERP“:

Web Applications

Create

ORDER file

EDI-Orders -> IDoc

EDI

Orders

Orders

IDoc

OrdersP

IDoc

OFTP

EDI and PROFIT – Go hand in hand

Feature Impact Benefits

Shared forecasts Inventory turns

increase Cut costs!

Transaction

automation Reduced labor Cut costs!

Integration with

systems

Fewer errors,

rework,

less paper

Cut costs!

Electronic payments Better cash flow Cut costs!

Shared sales and

inventory data Improved availability Increase sales!

Integration and high

speed data transfer

Access to quality

information Increase sales!

Transaction

automation People add value Increase sales!

EDI Advantage: Business Benefits

• Happier customers and suppliers: Increase quality of the trading relationship

• Improved cash flows: Shortened AR cycles

• Legal and finance compliance : Transparency and traceability in transactions

• Increased efficiency: Reduced lead times and stockholding with EDI for planning and

forecasting

• Fast and Accurate: Faster management reporting and automatic reconciliation

• Reduced costs: Reduction in deduction and credit for mistakes

• Competitive advantage: Preferred way of trading among top manufacturing and retail

organizations

EDI Advantage: Implementation Scenarios

Implementation Details

• Easy to deploy (Rapid Go-Live) and Easy Enhancement

• Packaged solution with five scenarios

• Quick implementation – 6 to 8 weeks

• Save time and costs through pre-defined content using SAP NetWeaver Process Integration and EDI

Adapter

Scenarios

• Customer transmits EDI 850 (Purchase Order)

• Customer transmits EDI 860 (Purchase Order Change)

• Supplier transmits EDI 856 (Advance Shipment Notice)

• Supplier transmits EDI 810 (Electronic Invoice)

• Customer transmits EDI 820 (Remittance Advice)

• Customer/Supplier transmits EDI 997 (Functional Acknowledgements for the above scenarios)

Case Study: Retailer in Home Segment

Description

Supplier to large retailers in US and

hence needs to comply with the

messaging standards for electronic transactions

Challenges

• Multiple versions and validations

by about 30 customers

• Support for VAN mailbox and AS2

• Security / Digital Signature

Achievements

• Entirely executed out of offshore

• Monitoring and Alert Architecture

• Subcontracting Scenario

automated

EDI Advantage: Benefits Summary

EDI Advantage is a packaged software solution from Arteria that improves your

productivity by offering rapid implementation of SAP PI with EDI in your environment. It is

a set of services which help companies rapidly establish B2B relationship with their

trading partners (Customers and Suppliers) utilizing EDI.

Packaged EDI Scenarios

• Pre-defined Content with common scenarios using industry formats

• Compliance to business partner standards

Business Benefits

• Increased Efficiency: Reduced lead times and stockholding

• Competitive Advantage: Preferred way of trading amongst top organizations

Lower TCO

• Single Platform: Runs on SAP NetWeaver PI platform

• Easy to deploy with rapid go-live.

Thank You!

Arteria Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Level 1, Innovator,

International Tech Park, Whitefield,

Bangalore – 560066

India.

Web: www.arteriatech.com

Email: sales@arteriatech.com | parag.jain@arteriatech.com

Phone: +91 80 4242 3801